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Spacesuit Wear Detection, ISRU NASA Design Challenge Winners

Spacesuit Wear Detection, ISRU NASA Design Challenge Winners

NASA News Release: NASA Announces Winning Concepts to Further its Journey to Mars NASA has announced the winners of two challenges to create new concepts for construction and human habitation on future space exploration missions, including the agency’s journey to Mars. The Space Suit Textile Testing and In-Situ Materials Challenges, managed for NASA by NineSigma, […]

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Redirecting NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission to Phobos

Redirecting NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission to Phobos

  A key element of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM, is being pushed back one year. According to reports from a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council’s human exploration and operations committee which took place last week, ARM’s program director Michele Gates said: “Under the new schedule, the ARM robotic mission would launch in December […]

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Buzz Aldrin Addresses CPAC

Buzz Aldrin Addresses CPAC

The various candidates may not be saying much about the space program, or even the broader role of the emerging space economy, but at least Buzz Aldrin is. The second man on the Moon spoke to CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.      

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Paragon Aims for 98% Water Recovery on ISS

Paragon Aims for 98% Water Recovery on ISS

Paragon Space Development Corporation Press Release:  Paragon Space Development Corporation® Wins NASA ISS Water Processor Development Contract TUCSON, AZ (February 22, 2016) – NASA has awarded Paragon with a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract for the patented Ionomer-membrane Water Processor (IWP) System. IWP will provide the platform for up to 98% water […]

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Advisory Team Suggests NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Needs Some Recon

Advisory Team Suggests NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Needs Some Recon

For many of who take pride in NASA, it is embarrassing enough that the agency which once went to the Moon, and now says it is on a “Journey to Mars” has as its only defined human exploration goal, the Asteroid Redirect Mission. ARM’s objective, radically reduced from the original 2010 proposal of sending astronauts to […]

Posted in: Asteroids, NASA
NASA FY 2017 Budget Request

NASA FY 2017 Budget Request

First, the good news. We are long past the days when the release of an Administration’s budget request for NASA was the most reliable guidepost to what the future of space exploration might bring. On the other hand, we are nowhere close to the point where it is no longer relevant either. That being said, […]

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Congressional Hearing Takeaway: NASA May Lose its ARM, Yet Reach for the Moon

Congressional Hearing Takeaway: NASA May Lose its ARM, Yet Reach for the Moon

On February 3rd, Congress held another in an a seemingly endless line of hearings to discus NASA’s human space flight program. As usual, nothing was decided other than the fact that everyone seemed to agree with the assertion that what NASA is saying is a plan, is not one at all, and that some sort […]

Posted in: Mars, Moon, NASA
Dawn Imagery Soaring Over Ceres

Dawn Imagery Soaring Over Ceres

  From NASA: “The movie shows Ceres in enhanced color, which helps to highlight subtle differences in the appearance of surface materials. Scientists believe areas with shades of blue contain younger, fresher material, including flows, pits and cracks. The animated flight over Ceres emphasizes the most prominent craters, such as Occator, and the tall, conical mountain […]

Posted in: Asteroids, NASA
NASA’s Day of Remembrance

NASA’s Day of Remembrance

Today, January 28th 2016, marks the 30th anniversary of Challenger disaster. It is also NASA’s official Day of Remembrance to commemorate the three separate tragedies which have scarred the agency and shaped its acceptance of risk. They were the Apollo 1 fire which took place January 27th, 1967, the loss of Challenger on January 28th, […]

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SpaceX Launches Jason 3, Narrowly Misses First Stage Landing Success

SpaceX Launches Jason 3, Narrowly Misses First Stage Landing Success

The SpaceX Falcon 9 V1.1 ended its career on Sunday in much the same fashion as it began, with an on-time launch out of California’s Vandenberg, AFB and a bit more experience gained in the still elusive art of landing a descending booster at sea. Lifting off at 1:42 PM EST out of a very […]

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